A.J.: Excuse me, Mr. President, I just got off the phone with the federal mediator in St. Louis. Management just walked away from the table; the baggage handlers, pilots and flight attendants are all getting set to walk out in forty-eight hours.President Andrew Shepherd: You know, I studied under a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and you know what he taught me?A.J.: Never have an airline strike at Christmas?

President Andrew Shepherd: Is the view pretty good from the cheap seats, A.J.?A.J.: I beg your pardon?President Andrew Shepherd: Because it occurs to me that in 25 years I've never seen YOUR name on a ballot. Now why is that? Why are you always one step behind ME?A.J.: Because if I wasn't, you'd be the most popular history teacher at the University of Wisconsin!President Andrew Shepherd: Fuck you!

Lewis Rothschild: Mood swings? Nineteen post-graduate degrees in mathematics, and your best explanation for going from a 63 to a 46 percent approval rating in five weeks is mood swings?Leon Kodak: Well, I could explain it better, but I'd need charts, and graphs, and an easel.